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1. Open a new transparent canvas 500 x 500 and minimize.

2. Duplicate tube and close original. Resize copy of the tube so that width is no wider than 500. Copy and paste onto your new 'minimized' transparant canvas. You can now close your tube copy as you won't need it anymore.

3. Duplicate tube layer and hide top tube layer

4. Resize lower tube layer to 80%

5. Apply Mura Meister – Copies Plugin using the Encirle preset

6. Duplicate this layer and hide top “Encirle” layer

7. Apply a 'Gaussian Blur' to the bottom “Encirle” Layer with a radius of 10

8. Unhide the top “Encirle” Layer and change opacity to 20% on layer pallette

9. Add new raster Layer and Flood Fill with Black

10. Load Mask “Image 8” – Invert Transparency not checked

11. Merge Group or delete mask layer depending which Version of PSP you are using.

12. Change this layers “blend mode” in layers palette from normal to Luminance (Legacy)

13. Unhide your top layer which should be your original tube layer.

14. Add raster layer, apply Brush you have chosen to your image, use the lighter colour from the ones you are using. To make brush easily seen, keep mouse still and click as many times as it take to get the desired effect. Add a Drop Shadow of your liking to accentuate the Brush Text. (I used V & H = 0, O = 50, B = 3)

15. Merge Visible

Time to add your font...

These are the settings I used for my font

16. Love Light Font (Use whichever font you have chosen)

17. Size 200 pixels

18. Forground: #53320c Background: #f1cfaa Stroke: 1.0 Bold: Yes

19. Forground – solid Colour – Change Background to foreground/background gradient ~ make sure the light colour on top and dark on the bottom – no repeats

20. Apply the following Inner Bevel to your Text


21. Apply the following Drop Shadow to your Text

Colour: black

22. Merge All – resize to 400 x 400 and export to File/Jpeg Optimizer

Congrats your done! If you would like to share your results feel free to email me